Jumonville v. Hebert

OTT, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this suit against the Mayor, the Marshal and the five members of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Plaquemine, alleging in his petition that dice and crap games, slot machines, and other forms of gambling games and devices were being operated openly in said town, and in violation of the laws of the State and the ordinances of the town; that said officers had full knowledge of the open and public violation of said gambling laws by various and numerous persons and places in said town. Plaintiff names certain places in his petition where he alleges such gambling…